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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Higginbotham finds the trial court properly found Honda liable for severe injuries sustained by the driver and passenger in a Honda CR-V from a side-impact accident. The court awarded over $21 million in damages. The severest injury was not caused by vehicle impact, but by the driver’s ejection from his seatbelt, causing his head to hit the passenger’s. An expert explained that the crash should have been without serious injury because the “configuration and severity” were below parameters of testing set by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. He also said that Honda’s representative admitted that it did not “run a side impact test with a far side crash test dummy.” The testimony was properly admitted, with opinions based on reliable methodologies. There was sufficient evidence for the jury to find Honda liable, and the court’s application of the statutory presumption of nonliability was properly executed on all fronts. Affirmed.